Make-a-List Monday: Christmas birthdays

This list idea was suggested by Lauren M.: MPs who have a birthday at Christmastime — defined, for my purposes, between December 20 and December 31. (I did a list of Christmastime disappearances five years ago.)

December 20

December 21

December 22

December 23

December 24

December 25

December 26

December 27

December 28

December 29

December 30

December 31

Mary December 22, 2016 / 4:34 pm

Andre AIna’s mother escaped from a bad marriage in Ohio with her little boy to happiness in Beirut, Lebanon on her own 33rd birthday. Andre really seems to enjoy his life in Lebanon with his mother. He is even on Facebook.

diamondlil16 December 25, 2016 / 8:43 pm

Why didn’t his mother legally try to get custody of her son? You say she had a bad marriage but did the son have a bad relationship with his father? Andre would be 11 or 12 now, do you know if he has made online contact with his father?

Anonymous December 28, 2016 / 4:06 am

The mother of Nicole and Joseph Ernst had full custody of them in Oklahoma from the divorce and was allowed to hold passports for the children when they left to Russia. The child of a Russian national is also Russian at birth so they did not leave to Russia illegally. She just was supposed to inform the courts of her intentions to relocate, but did not because she knew her ex-husband would complain about a relocation and remarriage. Joseph and Nicole’s father has also visited with them in Russia and confirmed to all that they are well with their Russian mother and stepfather, speak fluent Russian, and are not interested in returning to the United States. How else did he get new pictures? I guess it is kind of sad because the Randy Ernst has said his children did not want to embrace or see him and his family, but still he knows his children are well in Russia. It is always sad when your child refuses to embrace or look at you I know as a father. Still I am not going to have my child’s mother arrested for remarrying and because Russian law says a Russian citizen, even a child, does not have to leave Russia unwillingly!